Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines: A Flawed Masterpiece

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines is one of those games that tends to occasionally enter the periphery of PC gamers when

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games in general are mentioned. It has always had very good reviews. It has always been considered a cult classic, even with over 7,000 reviews now on Steam alone. tends to be one of those games that just didn't feel like it was going to be in the category it ended up in, it has to be horror, right, no, not particularly, at least not by the standards of Silent Hill or Resident Evil, the video game actually based on a tabletop roleplaying game released in 1991, which means vtm

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basically did in 2004 what cyberpunk 2077 is doing this year.

I've had this game on my playlist since 2014 and quite a few have mentioned it to me numerous times. fans of the game as something that would fit well on my channel, with the help of my gog comrades I managed to get another deal with them for a 55% discount for the next few days, it being October and the semi-recent news about a sequel being released In 2021, now is a better time than ever to dive into this game and get started. I will mention that vtm

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is unfortunately one of those games that suffered quite a few bugs when it was released.

In 2004, fortunately, almost everything you could expect was fixed by an unofficial patch that can be easily found with a Google search. It's also worth noting that Gog comes with the patch already built into the game, which is nice, so jumping into a new game helps. By making quite a few decisions that reflect what you'd expect from a game that comes out of a tabletop role-playing game, you can jump straight to a character sheet or you can answer some questions that will guide your character, which I always enjoy doing in this type of game. games. games, this makes me answer some hard-hitting questions, like you were mugged last night, it wasn't life-threatening, but you want to take some steps to make sure that if it happens again, you're not defenseless, do you sign up for an arts class? martial next time they try it you will break their spine start carrying a knife and hide it in your belt the next person who tries it breathes through a hole in their neck buys a gun the next robber is curb meat the questions are generally on the borderline of avant-garde I don't care, in fact I think they set the tone of the game quite well with their mention of art sales in nightclubs and the urban lifestyle in general, which immediately separates the idea from that this game exists in some kind of medieval gothic style. setup and lets you know that you will be participating in a relatively modern environment.

The results of my surprise exam lead me to be picked up by the family of bullfighters, who value charismatic and gentle discussions over fights. My problem personally is that I really want to be a softie.

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who can tear people limb from limb and bullfighters go hard in one direction but not the other. You could start over and switch to a more melee oriented family, but a little research shows that melee isn't very useful when it comes to Late Game compared to using weapons, we'll talk more about That's later, though for now let me go over the 7 different clans that are involved in this game.

We have the bullfighters that I finally decided to run with here, they are well-known. as the most social among human society and blend in perfectly as eccentric artistic types, then there is the other family that I almost went with with the witch clan, they are known as impulsive rebellious types who give in to their feelings and fight for their beliefs of a fiercely vampiric Utopia despite the possible repercussions, then you have the Ventrue clan, which is seen as the highest and most royal layer of vampire society. Their elegant and pompous behavior means that they cannot feed on humans and low-living animals without Next we get sick, we have the counterparts of the witches, the gangrel clan.

These are a more nomadic tribe of vampires who care little about vampire politics and prefer to spend their days hunting on the outskirts of society, the last of the more socially based clans. It is the Tremor clan that cares more about the pursuit of arcane knowledge than anything else and has harnessed blood magic to aid them in their activities. The last two clans are a little more unhinged than the rest. The nosferatu tribe looks exactly as you'd expect. hide from everyone else because of their hideous face in the underground and finally the Malkavians might be the most interesting in terms of how they work.

All other clans refer to them as lunatics as they hear voices that constantly guide them through the world. world, which makes them see almost everything differently than other clans, of course, there is much more to these families than the brief description I just gave, including the advantages and disadvantages of each, but I will spare you the details on that . What I'm saying is that I love the pure potential that's here alone. Honestly, I can't sit here and pick just one clan and go, yeah, but this one is the same as this one, except it looks different.

I think they all have the potential to excel as their own and I can't wait to see how these clans interact with each other. From here we have the meat of the character sheet that covers your attributes, skills and disciplines. I won't go into every little feature here like I probably would. I'll be sitting here talking about them for 10 minutes straight, but the important overview to keep in mind here is that you have your combat skills which reflect your ability to fight with your fists, melee weapons, or guns, as well as how much defense you have. for yourself.

You have your covert skills that encompass things like lock picking, sneak hacking, etc. You have mental abilities that influence how you interact with other characters throughout the game. You have disciplines that are specific feats that change depending on the family you are a part of. and you have something called simply soak that reflects how much damage resistance you have to various sources of damage in the game. For my guy, I'm running a charismatic and persuasive vampire who has a decent amount of defense as well as some proficiency in Research and Hacking when it comes to combat skills.

I have a point in hand-to-hand combat for now. I know I mentioned that melee combat goes away later, but my line of thinking is that it will probably still be my best bet for the early game. As my discipline progresses, I want to get the stat bonus by investing in aspects right now, as it gives me a point of perception at level 2 and grants me a wider range of detection of living and non-living things around me , which means being able to move at ridiculous speed. Haste will eventually be my main focus, but the game tells me that using it in safe areas is prohibited.

I'll talk more about that in a moment. Another thing to keep in mind is the top right of the sheet where your humanity and these strangers are located. Human-like masks are shown. Humanity is basically the balancing act that you, as a vampire, experience throughout your journey. If you decide to kill an innocent, your humanity will plummet, meaning you'll have a harder time not going into a frenzy while playing with the masks, on the other hand, is basically how many hits you have as a vampire, since most Of vampires generally doing their best to blend in and exist alongside humans, they have established what is known as the

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, a set of rules for vampires that you must follow whenever you violate one of these rules, one of your masks disappears. , which opens you up to attacks from vampire hunters, as well as your own kind starting to despise you if you lose all five masks, it's game over, the last thing I'll mention on the stat sheet here is that many of These statistics seem to differ from each other.

If you are looking to increase your persuasion, you can do so through erudition or charisma, in addition to this, some skills can only be increased directly through a single method, such as your lethal damage absorption, which can only be increased by obtaining a best armor. Overall, I enjoyed how many directions you can go with your character without even actually starting the game. I can already see the repetition potential. Just looking at this one stat block and I'm excited to dive in and see what this is all about, yeah this, God where to start by today's standards this game seems like a parody now before you get mad hear me out . yeah, it's older and I'm not judging it harshly or calling it part in any way, there's just a lot of timing and audio cues that are a little spotty in 2020, but again, that's totally fine now as a precursor to the story here, I'm going to mention that I'm going to ruin the life of this game if you want to explore it for yourself I highly recommend you do so before continuing so this all starts when you get busy with a vampire who decides to give you the bad blowjob after the good one blowjob, this turns you into a vampire, which brings these two thugs who come in and watch you, they grab them both and put them on the stage where I assume they are members of different families appear to witness the judgment that fell upon you and the vampires who did you good.

The lady receives the dragon hunter on her neck, causing her death. I don't know why she did it, but it seems like she should have known. best when the man known as the prince briefly explains the existence of the code of conduct that all vampires in this society must follow, after this you are basically told to go learn how society as a whole works and then return blood, It's your new shelf. of lamb, your new champagne, watch your new hero boy prepare because, hey, it's never as sweet as the first time, so yeah, this guy walks you through the tutorial phase where you feed yourself a human and you are told exactly what you can do and what you are.

The weak voice acting is surprisingly good for old Jack, which makes sense since he's played by John Dimaggio. They tell you that most of the anti-vampire tropes are made up, except for being weak to sunlight and fire. You can still be killed with guns, but a stake through the heart only paralyzes you, which explains the opening scene long after this gets crazy when they explain to you that a group known as Sabbat is raiding the place where these guys are a group of unchained vampires that exist to cause carnage and wreak havoc on the old intestines from before, go in and simply destroy some of them with your great magical powers and continue with your tutorial tour.

This includes explanations on hacking and lock picking, which are pretty straightforward, though I will say. that going through a computer makes you interact with it in the old school way, where you type in the different trees you want to access through several different commands available. If your skills are high enough, you can hack or block your way to the computer. It's safe to get the key card out of here, but if you don't have the required proficiency in either, you can explore the room and find a piece of paper with a password on it, which is cool, plus any area you get into. you find is marked.

With three different potential symbols, the first signals that anything can happen and that you can use your powers at will. The second notes that the

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is in full effect, meaning you can use your powers but you must be careful not to get trapped. by humans and the latter means that the use of your powers and weapons is strictly prohibited, although the game seems quite archaic at first glance. I am really enjoying the systems that have been presented to me so far in this tutorial, from here it is detailed. how exactly the health system works in relation to different sources of damage, if you take standard damage it will heal over time fairly quickly, if you take aggravated damage it will take much longer to heal unless you drink some blood, this brings us to blood quality - a homeless guy will have much worse blood quality than someone who takes care of themselves, which affects the benefit you receive from draining it.

You can also feed on animals like rats if you're in a pinch or have decided to play as one. Of those vampires who hate what they are, it is also worth noting here that if you are not careful and kill an innocent, all humanity comes into play, as I said, the lower your humanity, the more often you will go into a frenzy and the Frenzy can be nice. Bad if you are in a place where losing control is considered taboo because of the masquerade. It's a pretty impressive system that I haven't seen in any other game I can think of so far, all well and good until the sneak rears its ugly head.

Sneaking sucks in this game. I like the concept. It's a pretty standard system all things considered, except that it requires the elder to shift the eyeball and expand it telling you when you can move, when you might becaught and when definitely. being caught if the enemy is looking at you plus you can see how close or far an enemy is from you and how exposed you are to the amount of light all sounds pretty good but to me it seems like the system doesn't really work. I can be in bright light with the enemy looking directly at me and be totally fine and I can be in complete darkness and have the enemy looking away and get caught with nothing in between and of course the opposite can also happen, ah, them.

It's gone, it sucks because I enjoy a good stealth system, but I think I'll stop scoring points in this game. Fortunately, the combat is pretty decent for how old this game is. Hand-to-hand combat surprisingly involves different moves. Depending on the way you move the mouse and your character, I enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. I was going to switch to third person when starting combat is a little strange, but realistically it will probably be the way to go when I encounter it. Fortunately, this change doesn't happen when you're playing with weapons, although you don't have to aim down sights with most weapons, which ruins the rest of the tutorial, explaining your powers, where you can use them, and how they work.

I have to say that what has impressed me the most so far in this game is the default settings for which buttons correspond to which action throughout the game. You know how often I have to change my keyboard settings in most modern games easily 85 of the time. I would say the keyboard layout of this game and I know this is all a personal preference but for the most part it is perfect, you know how often you crouch with the c button in PC games even though there is no a tilt or swipe system, it's a travesty and anyone who uses the c button to crouch in this type of game is a bad job, that pinkie anyway that's it for the tutorial when you're done you get two full experiences that sound like nothing you knew in World of Warcraft when you were running around with like 600,000 health and all the numbers on the screen were ridiculous, they finally reduced the numbers to something that didn't look so stupid and now World of Warcraft is better than ever ah yeah better than ever anyway, vampire is basically the rpg experience crushing stat, things don't cost 1000 xp minimum to buy, they cost like three and I like that, I mean I can't buy anything yet, but I like it , so they send me to my apartment, which has a few different clues I can follow. on my laptop email system penis enlargement watch the girls come running call five today 1-800-5555 the first clue is from a guy named mercury who is looking for explosives for some reason the second clue is a riddle that will guide me to the region of the Tramere family home if I can figure it out and the third exit is less of an exit and more of a veiled threat as it simply says the game begins a pawn moves very well so two exits well , this brings me to the main street where our boy Mercurio is dragging his stupid ass to his fancy apartment when I catch up to him, he tells me that the people he was going to get the explosives from beat him up, so I agree to go get his explosives. and deal with the problem, this has me running down the beach before I get to this shack and wipe them all out.

The interesting thing here is that I realized how many ways I could have approached this later, not only is there a way to get in. Behind this thing there is also a switch at the back of the house to turn off all the lights. , which is cool anyway, after grabbing the explosives, I head back to the beach to chat with all these other vampire-looking guys who are just hanging out and have apparently been told to stick around and not show themselves anywhere. Elsewhere they seem to be the runts of the very weak vampire brood who have been bullied since they returned, they all have no idea what exactly they are and how any of them This works and I've been sitting here confused after being repeatedly kicked out for being of the so-called weak bloods.

I offered to help one of them by trying to find the girl who turned him and then I scammed another by offering to sell him unicorn blood. so I can be human again I guess I'm chaotic neutral anyway the dialogue in this game is great so far I've come across these minor vampires who have their own personalities and pretty good voice acting then there's Sonic the hedgehog. guy who apparently turned into a ghoul by drinking a vampire's blood and is super excited to meet another vampire, then you get like this, no one told me to expect any technicians, damn, I love it after hanging around this hospital and to sack. for morphine for mercury I finally find this lady whose torso scares me.

I give her some of my blood, which helps her and then I go back to Mercury's house where he informs me that the explosives I recovered will be used to blow up. a sabbat warehouse and furthermore he explains to me that he is also a demon and to get into the warehouse and come out alive he might want to seek the help of someone named bertram tong, unfortunately bert is hiding in the next moment. get into a fight with another of the city's big players named Therese, so I probably need to resolve this dispute before continuing with the destruction of the warehouse.

The game explores very well, every little place you come across seems to be a real pile of information in search of an intrigue the restaurant makes you recover the personal belongings of the girl who turned the surfer on the beach into a vampire the place Bail Bonds has this chubby guy asking you to try and track down his bounty hunter. The asylum nightclub has you running around in this worn out Harley Quinn who half seduces you before going up the stairs and having a cat fight with his sister. I'm really enjoying every part of this, if I'm going to be honest, I'll eventually get to talk to Harley's sister, Therese, she describes. mr tung as a nosferatu who has ruined a lucrative business for her and i can offer to kill him for her or have her call off the dispute by going through these sewers to a haunted house and trying to get the personal belonging of a ghost to try to exercise it from the property.

That last one sounds a lot more fun, so let's go. It's worth noting that I'm doing my best to do as many quests as I can, although I may miss a few due to how many quests it seems. being so far is fine, then you remember that part at the beginning of the video where I say: ah yeah, the game is not really a horror game by the standards of other games, yeah, this hotel is amazing, really amazing, so you go in . this thing and other things start flying off the shelves at you, whatever, no big deal, then you turn a corner and this happens, yeah, okay, let's play this in third person, now this mission is awesome, You're never really in danger from The Ghost himself, who I actually thought would be chasing me around the hotel, but it's all ridiculously creepy and well done when you're playing a game as a vampire and it can still scare you, it's doing something good, little noises, music and voices. floods your ears, things hit you around corners, the serial killer ghost tries to crush you with an elevator, it's really cool, I love it when you get to the end, you find a diary detailing a family staying at this hotel for a few days .

In the 1950s, everything is great at first, but the husband keeps asking the wife about her new amulet that he received from her mother. He continues to harass her, claiming that she got it from a man. Finally, the man begins to go crazy with jealousy and the only time he seems happy is when he talks to the gardener about his tools. Well eventually the guy ends up killing the kids and going after the wife who is frantically writing in the diary the moment it's over, don't let your insecurities turn you into a murderous psychopaths just become one without the insecurities, Instead, wait, no, after grabbing the amulet, I leave the hotel at a moderately scared pace.

I have never been so happy to see the sewers. In fact, the sewers in this game are a pretty well done shortcut system. which helps you travel from one side of the map to the other relatively quickly, which was a nice surprise, although getting to where I need to go above the sewers isn't that bad either, as there are several ways to get around everyone's buildings. modes. inform Therese only to have her sister try to make me feel guilty and leave the ghost amulet with her. I told him no, but instead I promised to stop an art gallery meeting by cutting up all the paintings it contained.

The reason for this is the gallery premiere. a front for a rogue vampire who is trying to establish his own group by turning all the clients involved in it into vampires, at least that's what I was told when I showed up, there's no one in the gallery, I should hit these instead paintings. in a particular order that summons a boss in the form of this blood creature, the fight is a bit tough since I haven't finished the fight yet, but I managed to defeat it. I'll spare you the details for a moment, but This game has a lot more side quests than I thought.

I deal with an Asian vampire who is trying to move into the territory here. I confiscate some werewolf blood from the hospital to prevent normal humans from realizing that there's something supernatural afoot. I freed the vampire girl from the blood bank that turned the beach bomb into a vampire and kept trying to track down Bale's bounty hunter and ended up in this crazy bastard's prosthetics store. This last one in particular is incredible, as I said before. Anytime a game can make me feel scared while I'm the vampire is a good time, plus freeing Lily from the blood bank was pretty fun as the crazy guy selling you blood at the counter reveals that they were using Lily as a source. and that they will not sell you any more unless you pay them for the damages or bring them a new victim.

I also had the option to talk myself out of it, but they wanted to know about the time I murdered someone innocent and I didn't. Apparently I already did that, so I go to the club and find them a new sacrifice which they quickly drain and offer to sell me their hideous blood anyway. Once I'm done with the side quests, I inform Jeanette only to have her sister wait. familiar, yes the paintings I cut here were actually of Teresa and she is angry, fortunately my high persuasion gets me out of this predicament and she sends me to make up with her sister at the restaurant, except her sister is not there, they are only these guys start.

Opening fire on me, I take them out and then answer the phone at the end of the restaurant only for Therese to apologize and say that her sister sent those thugs here to kill me because I took Teresa's side, except then I hear her sister beg for her. Life is on the other side of the line, so I have no idea who to believe. The writing here is pretty good. I must admit that I had no idea what to expect and yet my expectations are still being exceeded by this game. Well, uh. I don't know if I'm stupid or what, but I didn't predict this one at all.

The only other character with a split personality I can think of is the dog and god in New Vegas and you knew it. I was split right away, the fact that they planned this as the final reveal is perfect because before this the other sister was always absent and I put that down to quest design, everything makes a lot more sense now and I love this twist, well if you persuasion is high enough, you can convince these two personalities to resolve their differences and work together, if not, you can choose which one dies. The little story threads the two tell about their double life really paint a picture of their father forcing their hand on them. from when they killed him for that to how they manage their businesses super well and at the same time are with whoever in their free time.

I imagine this is all a coping mechanism for this woman and she switches to whatever personality best suits her situation. is in this is amazing and the end result is Tourette telling me where the tongue is finally after everything I just went through it's actually a little strange talking with the tongue and he goes well so you're the new guy from the block, cool, so I'm going to blow up a warehouse like nothing I did with Tourette's matters to him, but whatever, I think the funniest thing is that not only was this guy here the whole time, but he also has a computer in this. strange broken metal shell, no idea how that thing is connected, but hey, anyway, lets me know that the sabbat has been moving supplies through this warehouse, but that the place is mainly staffed by humans who worked for the Sabbath knowing that they are vampires because of this, I am free to slaughter these humans, since it is technically a way for me to keep the masquerade as the language says, so II head to this place, kill all these humans, plant the explosives and get out, it's actually a lot harder than I thought.

It was going to be like this and I almost died a couple of times, but I managed to get through before meeting a werewolf who asks me some questions. Ozzy listens to some kind of vampire historian, as Bertram tells me, then asked me about any unusual happenings, what I'm referring to. The whole game is unusual, but I tell you this because I trust anyone. Apparently, he then lets me know that the Sabbat will probably hunt me down from now on and that there is something in and around Los Angeles that is out of the ordinary, something in the air. apparently that sounds like me anyway, we split up and I went back to Bert who tells me this guy from earlier oh that was cool and I saw your teeth and I thought damn it was like I could feel you the name is max . harrington nice to meet you oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man wait oh man oh man oh man he was actually pretending to be a clueless idiot to manipulate me into doing things in languages ​​interests one really surprised me the guy is one Great actor, but beyond this information, Bertram tells you his opinions about the other clans and sex.

It's all pretty interesting stuff, but I already covered it all earlier in the video, so let's move on, it's finally time to get in a taxi. and head to a new area in the center, well apparently a Sabbat agent chose the absolutely perfect spot to wait for me and ambush me while sneaking up on me like a cartoon character with his baseball bat, yes the game shows More than his age with this scene like this. The idiots laugh at me and start threatening to kill me in every way possible. I think we could all use a little entertainment.

Those of you sitting in the front rows will get wet, as you may have guessed. My character doesn't just die and the credits start rolling. No, this guy I saw in the courthouse at the beginning of the game arrives and threatens them all with a hand grenade that works for some reason. taking hostages and using them as a shield anyway, this is all supposed to be a badass scene, but it's not, well, nine here tells me to stop being stupid and watch out for walking bat carriers in the future, I tell him yes, it's fine and now. we finally get to downtown, downtown looks great, yes of course it's still an old game, but Santa Monica was a rainy, dirty, run-down ass, and downtown is a much bigger, sprawling shell and attractive to the eye, the first thing I do is just go for a walk.

Whichever building I can first, as is tradition, which happens to be the main objective I have at the moment, the hunk officer here he is, sits front and center of this rather tidy looking interior before he lets me know that I can head towards the boy. who saved me from beheading the ventrue prince sebastian lecroy lecroy tells me about a ship called the dane that was apparently found with no crew on board the ship was apparently carrying some sort of sarcophagus which may be the source of unease in the air that many vampires feel. I'm too on board confiscate any information about the sarcophagus, take a look at the thing but don't open it and don't hurt any police on the ship.

I can promise two of those things, but I'm going to have a hard time not opening what they told me not to open. Interestingly, Lacroix also tells me that he used to serve under Napoleon, which is a nice touch, let's see what we have in old chamber three, oh well, hello. I've been thinking about you, oh yeah, I'm going to lick you all over and then I'm going to go to your creamy center and what, take your hands off my Bavarian cream, okay, let's continue down the street, the lady is coming, oh God, but can you call me Fat Larry with a fat guy because I know I have a weight problem.

I just don't care. I love Fat Larry. How come this guy isn't in Smash Ultimate yet? Sakurai. I need a massive and tough bionic two-fisted Yo Jimbo for a big size. Skull, yeah, Fat Larry is apparently my supplier for this area and he also has a little side quest for me, no big deal, although it's pretty long if you sneak through all the vents like I did. I enjoyed this for the first time. 10 minutes or so, but man, this parking lot didn't need to be four stories deep. Well, when I get back, my boy Larry lets me know that he knows someone who could also use my services at a place simply called confession, so I'm off.

To prove it, well the confession is this, it's really cool, I love the look, it's basically a cathedral turned into a nightclub bar, which is amazing, this necklace, a big titted goth girlfriend wants me to come tell you to some Russian gangsters that she's broke and then run away, ah. chicken pizza with cheese yes, of course, here comes the greatest hero in this game, my persuasion skill, I inform Venus, who offers to make me a member in her club if I kill a high-ranking Russian gangster named Boris, so apparently this girl took out a huge loan from these Russians to start her club and now she's having trouble staying afloat and making payments every time she misses a payment she has to go to Boris to make it up to him so she wants him to kill him, This doesn't make sense, I imagine the debt.

She is not going with the Russian mafia and she was the one who took the loan. I don't understand that, so I approach this guy and have a couple of options. I can kill him. I can convince him to leave her. debt if my presence is high enough, which it isn't, or I can turn on her and kill her, what I don't understand is that if I kill her I lose humanity, but if I kill Boris, no, this is just one. one of those biased developer decisions where it's like, she's the good one here, the Russians are just bad, but since she took the loan, they didn't force her to do it, she knew what she was getting into, I mean, no I'm saying she's Russian.

Gangsters are good, but I don't see how I could lose humanity by turning against the person who wanted to resort to murder in the first place. Oh well, I kill the guy with his guards and then head to Venus, who lets me know. I can stop by from time to time to get some of the money from the club and then I'll say yes, so I have some ideas to improve the club and she says yes, well whatever I have to do apparently I'm a member only of name anyway. More small parts of various side quests happen, but I don't want to go into detail about anything, but what I do want to expand on is that I finally figured out the puzzle I received in my email at the beginning of the game and I end up in This Twisted Mansion Type Thing That It eventually leads me to contact the guy who sent the email.

He explains that this is a place for the Tramere clan and that I cannot learn the secrets from him since I do not share his blood. the word in everyone's mouth likeable or friendly seems to be an epidemic ah, not again, I like Strauss, he seems quite careful and introspective and feels that the prince is not one of those who claim that the prince wants power more than he He wants to see the clique succeed, oh right. Yeah, I never explained the cabal, so you have three groups: there's the cabal that basically enforces the masquerade and makes sure the existence of vampires is safely hidden, then there are the anarchists who believe in the idea that vampires They should be free to do whatever they want and then there's the Sabbath, which you know about anyway, Strauss wants me to investigate this plague that seems to be spreading through the downtown population, which makes me wander to the bar where Bender is supposed to be there from the beginning of the game.

My damn problem, yes this girl is angry, I don't like her at all, but she raises a point regardless of what the cabal considers all vampires to be part of their organization, so if an anarchist breaks a rule, the cabal will break it. punishes even though he considers himself. Not being part of the organization is an interesting balance, on one hand I agree with her, but on the other hand, the south lost the civil war, so anyway she starts talking about something called a plague carrier, which has caused the outbreak to occur basically as a Vampires can't get sick, but they can transmit diseases and if they start feeding rampantly on each and every human they come across, the disease spreads like wildfire, so I sign up to kill this plague carrier before things get worse. actual answers from jack at the top of this bar, it basically paints a better picture of this whole dispute between anarchists and cabal and tells me exactly what is going on with lecroy, basically, lacroix is ​​not the leader, he is not even part of the in-group. cabal circle, he is trying to get there by controlling the anarchist population and convincing them to fully join the cabal.

Apparently this fight between the two factions has been going on forever and the only reason I'm alive is because Nine defended me at the beginning of the game and Lacroix thought letting me go free would make the cabal look better to the persistent skeptics. . If that's true and I'm sure it is, I'd say I'll side with the anarchists, when the time comes, I'll go back to the nines later, first I have to destroy this plague person, yes, apparently this madman is part from a cult of plague-bearers who see her illness as a gift to humanity, which means I must track her down. two more and put them out of their misery this is definitely the only mission so far that I haven't liked in this game it's a good concept and the bosses are unique and interesting to talk to them before fighting them but hard work and They really suck, the sewer boss hits like a truck, but fight up close so you can shoot him from afar, unfortunately the water in this game has quite a few graphical glitches, making it difficult to beat the enemy and then walk to the last type.

It's horrible and full of these foraging zombies that don't hurt me but annoy me because they block my path. The boss fight itself is the reason I chose ranged weapons for the mid and late game when I tried running. This guy gives me the old texas special and profanity into oblivion, not to mention he's fast, so he just puts distance between us every time I try to get close to him, this makes the shootout very long and tedious, which makes that my shots feel more I like luck more than skill. By the time I'm done with him, I'm already out of ammo.

Fat Larry will eat well tonight when he finishes depositing my funds into his pockets. Anyway, back to these. guys and turn in my quests pick up another couple and take them out nothing particularly interesting but nothing too bad I also don't have the option to ask to join the anarchists but I'm not ready for that yet not only are the anarchists probably the most daring guys in the game. I have your meeting right here. Why are we still here just to suffer? But I want to play both sides for a while if I can. Although I do like the idea of ​​playing this game again as a very pompous and arrogant clique backer.

Anyway, just to see how the anarchists react, let's get this show on the road and hit that ship with the sarcophagus. Finally I head to the boat and talk to the policeman who is waiting on the side where I board. He thinks I'm a reporter bribing him to let me come on board, so I play along, sneak into the security area, check the cameras, take the reports and that's it, man, I had this built in. my head like some kind of big mugging, so I decide to try it. sneak past all the cops anyway and get to the sarcophagus and I can't open it properly, damn, what was the point of dangling the forbidden fruit in front of me if it's not ripe yet?

Oh well, I reload my security and get the Fuck it when the redhead I saved in the hospital earlier ambushes me on the stairs of the Lacroix hotel mansion, which she wants to do to me ever since I saved her ass. and he gives me a random silver ring he found, so I tell him. She can return to my house I guess, then I go up and talk to Lacroix, who has just left a meeting with the heads of all the other clans who are loyal or somewhat loyal to the camarella, apparently his concern is that the Malkavian leader has disappeared or is just not responding anymore, as I mentioned before, Malkavians are usually crazy so this sounds like a fun setup.

I should go to this grout guy's house in the next area and get to the bottom of his disappearance, that's like slang for something like catcher or some fetish term, not like a vampire, this place is a crazy house, literally , Grout's mansion appears to have been converted into some sort of madhouse by his own hand, there are several recordings throughout the place of him rambling about psychology, time perception, the condition of the mind, and the value he believes it brings. a madhouse as a kind of experimental field. Honestly, I'm not versed enough in psychology to think about something like this, so I have to take my hat off to theWriters, this place is great, there are all these wandering crazy people that are bearing down on me and they have been going crazy and doing all kinds of crazy activities, there are little mental puzzles littering the mansion for you to solve in order to progress and along the way are these recordings of grout reflecting on how he became a vampire while he himself was in an asylum explaining how he became a malkavian.

I will note that for some reason nines comes out of the mansion just as you get there and tells you that you should leave this place, although after seeing all this I imagine this was some kind of mind trick or something, what are you doing here ? No, no, as you press the grout you humorously note that the vampires seem to be obsessed with ancient tales of gothic imagery and the like and explain that they should instead focus on understanding the science behind their condition at this stage, the grout actually He sounds pretty sane, in fact if I had any sense I'd say the guy is too sane, but then you start getting to the recordings of his Malkavian blood slowly waking up and at first he seems to handle it pretty well, notice what the voices in his head and then acts accordingly, discerning which vampires have hidden agendas and which he can.

Trusting more, he finally meets a certain vampire in the circle, which puts the fear of God in him as the voices in his head begin to tell him to be very afraid of him. If I had to bet, I imagine it would be Lacroix. but grout does not confirm it for fear of leaving recorded evidence. Well, at the end of this crazy mansion we find grout's wife locked in a glass tube. What I hadn't mentioned before is that grout had been working on trying to find a cure for his wife for almost this entire taped saga, he was working on her as a human and then as a vampire, but he definitely didn't expect this to get better and better as As I turn his frozen body to unlock the grout's final chamber room, yes he's dead, the guy was tied to the bed and nailed to the heart, so God knows what else they did to him, but before I can investigate it all , an explosion occurs outside revealing a vampire hunter who vows to eliminate all vampires in the world.

When I explain to Earth that he already killed the main guy here, he seems surprised and laments that he can't kill Grout himself, so he rules him out as the killer. The hunter also mentions Lacroix as a demon that must be sacrificed before him. he leaves me to burn in the mansion well spoiler I don't burn in the mansion anyway the plot really starts to thicken after I escape and we go back to LC when I tell him that Groud is dead he really seems surprised of course what could. be a very good actor, but right now I honestly believe in him as I see it if I were writing something like This I would like the player to think it's Lacroix.

The important thing here is that Nines was seen leaving the crime scene, but she was also acting strangely. I guess this job has to be from someone I already know. who has ulterior motives, although a reason to wage war on the anarchists might suit Lecroy. Also, he certainly doesn't seem ready for it, but it could be a cover-up because I honestly don't know who I've met. harboring so much animosity towards the other faction, I mean maybe the girl who is always ready to fight me when I get to the last round, I guess it would give the cabal enough ammunition to wage war against the anarchists in hopes of May anarchists prevail. but if i had to choose someone the player knows who seems genuinely adorable but mysterious to some extent, i would choose becket or jack.

I doubt it, but hey, we'll see anyway. They told me that the sarcophagus has been moved. to the museum here in town and now I'm tasked with recovering it while Lacroix tries to figure out this grout business. I have no idea how I'm going to get this out, but it's okay, they also told me not to open it again. I'll do it if I can, I swear Something else to note is the fact that Lacroix recognizes the vampire hunter who set the mansion on fire, stating that this Bach guy's family has been chasing him for a long time.

Don't know. I think he's saying puppy, this museum is one gigantic stealth mission. We're talking about guard cameras patrolling the nine yards. This is where the game's stealth system tries its best to shine, but as I mentioned before, stealth is a bit broken, although thankfully not in the. Too bad at the beginning of the tutorial this guy kept getting me no matter what, now I can dodge almost any guard with my humble level 2 to make up for this mechanic. Cameras play an important role. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with the cameras because they kept arresting me while I was trying to sneak to safety, I thought they couldn't look at the thing, but I can run and get under them before I finish rotating all the pain that I have given it to the system.

I have to admit, this gets pretty intense as I crawl along the walls of the museum to try to find the key to the sarcophagus room and then try to locate said room. I caught this fetish that some creepy girl at the hospital I never talked about wanted me to catch. I finally managed to sneak into the warehouse room where the sarcophagus is supposed to be, except it's already apparently been stolen again. I'm struggling to figure out how. someone might come out with a heavy stone coffin, but apparently that happened somehow. The sarcophagus was not opened today.

The Beckett boys are already at the crime scene, as he tells them that he wanted to examine the thing before they moved it. He tells me a little more about the history he has been studying about how some vampires believed that ancient beings called antediluvians were the founders of the clans that are present today and that it is speculated that the body that is in the sarcophagus is one of them, the Beckett himself doesn't seem to believe it, but is open to the possibility, if evidence were presented when he returns to the prince, it appears that he has decided to have the Nines hunted down and killed due to their alleged interference in the grout case. drama about the whole ordeal, lamenting the burdens of leadership and all, his mood only worsens when I tell him the sarcophagus was stolen.

Gary, Gary is Nosferatu's firstborn, which is a word I've been avoiding saying before, but I've heard it enough now. to put it really, the firstborns are the leaders of the clan i mentioned before and gary is the nosferatu yes, i like the differences between the names in this game, you have like lecroy mercury alastair and pisha, then you have gary, the monster of the sewers. here next to jack heather and fat larry anyway let's track down big g in hollywood hollywood is um it's like advanced santa monica like someone would look at santa monica and say yeah but what if we put in strip clubs and sleazier motels and this giant iron building? and prostitutes everywhere is great in my story, it's not about garlic and bats okay, it's about vampire societies and stuff you know, like what vampires would really be about.

I mean, how do they blend into society without being discovered? So yeah, new area, new side quests. I'll try to highlight some of the more interesting ones, as always my job is done, yeah that should be fine, nothing interesting so far, unfortunately the side quests will have to wait as the so-called baron of this area sends his goon. I insist that I pay him a visit before I do anything else, so I walk by and this guy tells me that he wants me to do him a favor to make sure I'm um, I don't know kosher or whatever.

This favor seems simple, but I'm sure it's not. I have to head to a local internet cafe, log in with some information, and then figure out where to pick up a delivery. As I'm walking out this lady comes running up to me and tells me that and everyone else has been so worried about me when I ask her who she is she insists that I have amnesia and that she's going to go get help what the hell man I swear the developers are like that yeah but what if this happens and it's done perfectly well let's see who shows up when she makes this call maybe we could put him in a hospital or get the police involved oh never mind are you kidding ? oh well I reload and choose the correct persuasion option to convince her that I'm not who she's thinking of, that's something I hadn't noticed before because I just assumed that once you persuaded someone that whatever I chose next will work one way or another, but the reality is that you get a set of options because of the persuasion test and you still have to choose correctly after that, I wasn't sure how to feel about this, but after thinking about it some more, I'm not really opposed to it, with more obviously incorrect answers, you have the opportunity to back out. of your check if you change your mind, but in more difficult situations you could choose wrong by accident, it's certainly a unique system and the more I think about it, the more refreshing it is to me instead of just passing or failing, so I'm going to stick with this.

A guy in the alley after checking the computer and he is very scared, tells me that the tape I am going to recover is the sickest one he has ever seen in his life and that he hid the film in a place where he refers to as red-haired swans, then he runs around the corner and gets eaten by some poor sewer monster so yeah I guess I'm back on track for some side quests because I don't know what a redhead swan is but it sounds like a redhead stripper , so I went to the first club I saw Vesuvius in, no sign of ginger, but I find this lady who makes me follow her upstairs, up to my room, just 14 little steps, I'll make it worth it, believe me, oh boy . fake lava, how did you know?

Yeah, the funniest part about this is the fact that my guy has absolutely no sex drive anymore because vampires can't reproduce. More than half of the answers I can give this lady are the most internal thinking answers. I've seen it in the game, but I guess I'm acting calm and sounding very interested in this stripper vampire, but actually that's the problem here: the vampire who recognizes me as a vampire is still doing her best sensual and seductive act despite to know it. Alright, biologically I have no interest in it, not even recreationally, I just don't know, it's kind of strange writing.

I suppose vampires have almost always been caught up in a sexual environment in many different media, but that's usually how it seems. Being when a human that a vampire is interested in feeding or turning is seduced, it makes more sense because the vampire is using that basic instinct to attract the human, but when it comes to vampire on vampire action it just doesn't fit here as well as Be more direct with her requests, anyway she wants me to track down and kill a vampire hunter who has been watching the joint and the vampires around here. The hunter in question works at a smut shop called Sin Bin, we've got you covered.

Will I ever need hard software, gay, straight, farm or furry, we have chills, self-lubricators and straps, chains, crops and canes are in the back, next to the triple waves, in any case, I will take the clients out of here, deal with this bill killing lady. He pulls out a katana and then runs back to Velvet, who tells me that the guy from earlier who's writing that movie about vampires needs to be taken care of, it's about secret societies and creatures that found themselves dealing with internal beasts and persecution by of the elders. monsters, each of these answers is amazing in their own way, but yes, she cares deeply about the boy and doesn't want him to kill him.

However, she wants him to get his script and destroy it, as well as find out what relatives she has. I've been giving him all this information and killing that guy. Instead, the man is in bed. You have the grapefruit already prepared under the bed. He smelled citrus in the air. Getting the script is easy, but the guy's vampire sidekick is under the docks in Santa. Monica means that I can finally pick up the shotgun that I asked for in advance from Mercurio and also find out who has been killing people by tearing them into pieces in a very obvious way.

Oh yeah, I never mentioned that there's been a serial killer in all this time. and I've been following him throughout the game, you know, when I get to where he is he starts throwing cars at me, allowing me to have more fun with this game's absolutely atrocious physics system. I swear to God how many times I do it. I've gotten stuck on things in this game. It's amazing. This time I had to duck and jump on this car because the guy trapped me here. Finally my 600 hours in Counter-Strike Source paid off. The good thing about all this is that the guy doesn't.

Actually, I didn't go crazy and he killed for fun, he was actually killing a group of murderers who killed his family. I felt sorry for him for that and let him go whileIt dissuaded him from the idea of ​​giving in even further to the beast and justifying more murders when he said he's going to murder more criminals, a satisfying little twist, to be sure, although I'm a little sad I didn't get to test out my shotgun anyway, the aspiring writer's informant is a demon that, please, I don't. Meet Jesus Christ I've never felt so bad about a decision after trying both ways I finally decide to let it go but Jesus that's harsh I mean if I had gotten too much experience to kill him instead of one anyway.

I come back, rip up the script, get some money for the next club, help this vampire, the lord of the edges, escape from the vampire hunters, just filler stuff, basically, so anyway, the tape after to ask the Baron before he let me know that Ginger Swan was an actress who died a long time ago. a while ago and that her body is in the cemetery near Meryl Meryl Merrell, so I walk over and find this crazy bastard who has apparently been hired to prevent the zombies that rise in the night from escaping the cemetery. He loves his job but he also wants beer.

I've done that there, so he asks me to watch the cemetery for five minutes while he goes out for a beer. I do it and it's a little challenging at least, it seems like zombies only go down with headshots, at least easily, fortunately, he hits. I'd like to use this rifle, which has a nifty aim down button that makes me feel like I have scoliosis while I'm at it. Instead, I turn off my semi-automatic pistol and keep pressing my solarity button to give myself extra time while shooting one. from one end of the map to the other to try to prevent the zombies from escaping.

It gets ridiculous at the end, so I'm not sure how hard it actually is, but I managed to get it done on the first try when the guy comes back. He lets me keep the rifle and I head to the mausoleum that has the hidden tape, there are no ghosts or anything, but everything is fine. I take it to the good baron, who wants me to see the thing. 2004 wasn't particularly impressive. It's dismemberment technology, so it's nothing far-fetched, but these little goblins basically chase this girl around the house until she finally arrives and then my man says yes, so the nosferatu stopped talking to me right around the time she was movie started circulating, so they're probably going to look for the rest of the tape at the porn shop, so I ask around and find out that these snuff films are being made in the back of the internet cafe, which I get the key to when I arrive to the film set. everyone is dead and these two legged monsters just wander around the place they are fast they jump high and scare me so stupid they look at a glance they are incredibly disconcerting to deal with luckily haste 3 is worth it for me here but oh my god, After crawling around, I find a survivor who tells me that these guys don't do these things, they just copy the tapes sent to them from some mansion or another, then I take the entire tape and leave.

When I return, we see the entire film with the same ending, but this time the baron recognizes the house where the film was shot and sends me to rate it. He also comes to the conclusion that the entity he unleashed on these creatures. must be preventing the nosferatu from escaping the sewers to communicate with anyone else, so the baron casually tells me that there's a gargoyle on the other side of the road and that he wants me to kill it or convince it to stop attacking other vampires. The thing absolutely hates vampires. apparently blaming them for his existence and how much they constantly manipulate others, so I manipulate him into joining the barons' side.

What interests me is how much he hates the taste of vampire in particular, which makes me think they probably had something to do with its creation, since it involves magic. I like that this gargoyle appears to be modeled after an Asian theater statue here rather than the typical nosferatu. Those that you normally see in other media, okay, let's go up, I'll shoot it from the top of the mansion and continue going down until I find the demon in question. This thing, I have no idea what it is, but apparently it speaks very well. He's been creating these little goblins from whatever stragglers of society he can, including vampires, of course, and the only reason he's doing it is to spite the clique at this stage.

I'm thinking, well, maybe he can work with the anarchists, but then he leaves. After saying he's affiliated with the Sabbat, this is a pretty minor complaint since a lot of the story would probably have to be reworked for this route, but I really thought there would be an option to join this guy, I know it would mean turning my back on him so much. to the cabal like the anarchs but it would be a great evil play anyway you want to see what this boss fight with celery 3 looks like yeah I'm thinking this ability might be a little overpowered and I've still got two points to take in , so now we come to the worst part of this game so far.

These Warrens, oh my gosh, not only are there about 12 million of these Mike Wazowskis searching, but I probably spent a solid 20 minutes trying to do it. figure out the bomb system to get to the next area, this whole level design is just horrible, I mean I know it's a bit intentional but god, and it continues as soon as you're done with one set of orders, it takes you to two . and then three and then four, there's too much when it comes to this kind of thing, like the whole precipice of this place. Let's make an underground city type area for the player to crawl around and just fill it with these.

Little monsters we've created, I eventually run into this boss who looks menacing and is actually pretty cool. He throws bodies at me from afar and then tries to get in close and hand-to-hand fight me, which makes me much happier to be at range in this game. so that's it no the next part of Warrens oh hey it's that boss again oh look at another boss oh another boss this seriously yeah they're not hard to defeat but what were the developers thinking? Well, uh, Mike went crazy and did the layout for this whole Warren area, what do we do, fill it with enemies.

Well, yes of course, but maybe a boss, yes, that's great, but Mike gave even more warnings over the weekend. Oh well, I guess I'll make that boss a normal enemy too. You'll have one health bar for the first fight but then it'll be whatever after that, well maybe I'll get to the end of this area but guess what, I missed a turn in Albuquerque and the final part here needs a key card to progress, so I have to go back to the beginning of this section to go in the right direction in a place that looks the same no matter where you go, witness this nosferatu trying to fight these fat guys, then take the key and go back and hey.

Remember that mini boss I skipped burrows are a pest in this game? I mean, it doesn't even seem like the same development team did this part. I understand that you want to make the game difficult to have a section of the map that feels fairly faithful to a sprawling nightmare of tunnels and pipes. You want it to feel like you're really working your way to the end, but my goodness, where's the creativity with which you've taken all of these expected tropes in this game? I turned them upside down every time, I mean, I could think of maybe a handful of quests so far that weren't very intriguing or didn't bring anything particularly interesting to the table and then these mazes come strolling in and saying: Hey guys, how about ?

An epic saga of bland sewer levels to really get you in the mood, don't worry, we've designed three full enemies for the area and spammed them throughout it to make sure you don't get bored, what were you expecting? It's more interesting to play the rest of the game, so idiots, guess what it was worth because at the end when I use the key card the ground opens up and a nuclear rocket appears and launches somewhere towards Nevada. I'm not kidding. to the lair of nosferatu my enthusiasm after all that might be the lowest it's ever been for this game.

Browsing through this makes me run into a nerdy hacker who wants me to help him with updates to his security system. A lady who used to be a hottie. model in her own words and now she is determined to take out her frustrations on the hottest model of the moment and the man Lacroix sent me in this effort to find Gary. The camera zooms in pretty hard here every time I get into a conversation, I might be onto something. It has to do with the cramped nature of the setting, but Gary hates me for being one of the pretty ones and insists that I go to Chinatown to retrieve one of his men before he tells me where he sold the sarcophagus, as my character points out, it seems . like each person wants me to do something else for them before doing something for the prince, although I don't really care since it ties these areas of the map together and I would have tried to do all the quests anyway.

Gary is a spiteful vampire who seems to thrive on ruining other people's lives. I want to put your adorable face in a piranha tank. I want to apply an acid polish to your sculpted body. I want to throw your pocket mirror under a thresher and look how you bring it, but I'm not a boss butcher. Makes me wonder how I would have reacted if a fellow Nosferatu came here, although of course these guys seem to have had a safe back exit from everything I had to go through. to get to this pile of trash, so at this point I can continue on to Chinatown to advance the plot, but I have a lot of side quests to do with the nose cape unlocked.

Checking my email produces even more quests, so I'm discarding them. Unfortunately, the game seems to be running its course when it comes to side quests. I've enjoyed most of them, as I mentioned before, but now many of them are bogged down with incessant back and forth errors that don't even seem worth it, I'm not even going to get into most of them, but I can tell you that The most egregious offender is this pointer who wants you to set up all your safety nets that the mission literally has. Me going through each area of ​​the game to sneak and set up various things before I stop sneaking is kind of fun to a point, but every time the computer you hack gets a message telling you to go back home to the city center to Figuring out where the next place is doesn't help that the taxi is almost as far away from your safe haven as possible and that you have to wait every time you want to get on and off the elevator, it's a nice touch that the elevator actually runs up and down the floors. like a real one does, but when you have to do it multiple times in a row it really starts to wear on you and that's it, much of this could have easily been remedied with a PDA or an old cell phone or just being able to access your email from anywhere computer anywhere or allowing you to answer a pay phone to get in touch with whoever calls you for a mission you just did, it's just a lot of work and buildup.

It's things like the sewers are the only way to get into one of these buildings or the shitty physics that caused you to get stuck in everything and it's just a major obstacle to the game anyway after doing chores to As many as I can, I can get to Chinatown upon entering. In the temple I'm supposed to get answers from. I met this Chinese lady who of course has the same English accent as most of the vampires in this game. She is a form of Eastern vampire known as queijin, which sounds almost exactly like normal vampires, but.

More spiritual, I guess anyway she is the leader of this area and suggests that she consult with one of her subordinates for the location of the missing nosferatu guy. Well, we're running out of material here since the associate needs me to recover his missing daughter first. Of course, so I light up this place, save the ungrateful girl and I don't think she can find it for you, but damn, this is like a World of Warcraft quest. I will say that the guy tells me that he was working hard to stop everyone. the violence that was happening here in Chinatown and was almost successful until the chief queijin came to town and conveniently the criminals started getting more money to buy more weapons, drugs and personnel.

Now everything is worse than before when he started cleaning things up terribly convenient. But the guy doesn't listen to me tarnishing the name of his boss since he holds her in the highest esteem. Hi Andrea, what no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, Andrea, I got another call, Hi, Serena, did you hear about Joe and yes, him? It's yeah, he's yeah, he's, I know I was on the phone with Andrea and it was all no, he's not, yeah, he's okay, let's finish the last batch of side quests in the game that take place here in Chinatown first than me. .

Talk to a girl who has a big sword and a strange mechanical arm, she is anime and is looking for a demon who killed her nani master in typical anime style. Our boy is a greatshark monster and the resulting battle has this girl's skirt flying. I get up again and again, after this, I cross the street and talk to the old man inside who wants me to take the eyes out of a guy's body for his collection. Pretty normal request in this game. Where did I see a noodle shop? Oh, right. and going back to the old man, now he wants me to place a bad luck charm in some guy's locker, which isn't long after that, I walk up a block and talk to this old man, who explains to me that he used to be a murderer salary that a Partner had, they both did a great job and put all their profits in a box, each with their own key to the box.

They both have to use the keys at the same time to open it, but this created mistrust between the two. They stopped talking to each other and now they both want the other to die. I can convince them to resolve their differences so the Mortal Kombat friendship ends or I can do this. Hey, you faker, big faker, he lies, he doesn't pay, you get the key from him to lufang, lufang pays you. 20 you see, I give you 30 you take care of Lou I give you more money God hates Lou you think g1 jack can afford to pay 30 percent he needs money for child bait he has to buy the comic in the video game I give you 40 40 lou man evil when he was a hitman he killed women children pets I give you 50 he pays you in dagger he makes direct deposits in the back I give you sixty percent he wants to kill puppy because he barks all night and it keeps him awake I want him to trust the puppy killer I want use money for orphans i give you 70. 80 percent offers you lou fang i give you 80 same as lou but lou deserved to die please read big bad land drunk while this quest is hilarious and i really like it, it sucks dealing with the loading screens back and forth over and over again, I know it's a silly thing to complain about with an older game, but it really bogs down the whole quest, at least Chinatown is very Little Hell, I think it's in dispute with Santa Monica , the first area of ​​the game by the smallest map anyway, let's get back to the meat of this game, so let me explain this to you.

I need to find the location of the sarcophagus so I can To do that, I needed to figure out how to get into Nosferatu's lair, then I needed to find the main guy in charge who wants me to find his boy so I can do that, I had to rescue the daughter of a boy and then face a guy named Johnny. who runs this club, I'll give you an idea of ​​what happened, come to the full union building, yeah, okay, yeah, I understand you, well this guy who has our guy in the union decides to put me through a bunch of tests. to try to find out.

What vampires are weak to and how to exploit that weakness, these tests include spraying me with CO2, shining big flashlights on me, having me crawl across laser cables and searching for blades, humans armed with electricity and shooting me, it's all pretty simple and sort of. funny, in fact I enjoy the idea of ​​slowly approaching this intellectual before wreaking havoc and shooting him when he falls, I take the key to free the nosferatu and we hack some computers, well he hacks computers, I can never give him too many points. So we escape and I get a phone call from Gary who tells me that the Giovanni family and the Italian mafia of occult collectors have the sarcophagus.

Finally, at least this last mission was really interesting and fun again, so the Giovanni mansion, Giovanni, oh yeah. here is the place where I haven't met you before from your relative or family she will be fine after I give her a cup of coffee that woman has the self control of a pubescent chimpanzee come on Maria let's go home Yes, this is going to be fun. You know, a mission is good when a girl vomits blood and the husband says, "Ah, shame, so I walk in with my newly acquired invitation and mingle with the guests. This makes me choose one of three potential people to receive." . the so-called kiss of vampirism and it has me lying so that they trust me.

You've got a guy who's not really related to the family the way the family thinks he is. You have a guy who is completely broke despite looking like it. he has a ton of money and you have a girl who shared a needle and tested positive for what i assume is hiv. All the winners in my book, but the biggest winner is probably the girl who gives me two hundred dollars for sharing the information about the After the other two with her, I realized that I could have gotten a watch or a fancy ring if she I would have given the second the scoop on the first, but hey, I'm not exactly in need of cash right now, after this, I find another girl who wants it. to show me the catacombs where the giovanni family has created a group of zombies if somewhere in this house screams sarcophagus is this area well, I went through the simulator of the house of the dead and went down to the chamber with the sarcophagus where two brothers of the queijin They're protecting it, they let me know I'm violating some kind of agreement between the queijin and the cabal, but I don't care about that, so I fight them in slow motion, then lift the sarcophagus over my shoulder and carry it out of the catacombs and through the Mansion. packed with people before loading it into my truck and driving away.

I guess we'll go the logical video game route for this one, which is a little sad because the only time you really see this in the game is when the humans survive. headshots, I don't know, I won't dwell on it too much, but I will say that I get this experience modifier token at the end of the game. I don't hand it over at first, but isn't that a little strange? to not be available mid-game or something, I guess my stat sheet doesn't exactly hurt, but it's completely useless at this stage for me since it only affects 6 different side quests, giving you extra XP every time I would have waited to deliver them. side quests, this could have been a very useful thing for me, but as it is, I was punished for it.

I guess if I had gone the min-max route, I could have invested my points primarily into combat skills throughout the main story and then went back and did those side quests for superfluous skills, huh, anyway, prince pretends have knowledge or actually have no idea of ​​any alliance with the queijin, as he insists that the two I fought told me this to create dissidents in the ranks of the cabal even though I believed him before about the whole decision with the nines, I don't believe him at all. Either way, the prince is ready to open the great dead man's coffin, but he won't move at all.

I'm guessing it has something to do with that little indentation at the top, which means that if someone had opened this before, they'd probably still have the key that said the archaeologist who found the coffin was kidnapped by the same guys who burned the grout. . mansion and now he's being held in his fortress, that guy will be the guy we'll have to rescue so he can tell us if you've tried to get the key to open it. Now I pointed out Beckett as possibly the traitor, in quotes, in which case I leave him here to play with the sarcophagus, but I mean you have the prince and his gigantic, fleshy servant watching the guy at all times.

It's hard to say if it would be a fair fight, since the loading screens have told me so. Werewolves have been known to tear apart vampires with no problem, I don't know, I'd still say the prince is simply pulling all the strings here to gain as much power as possible, even though it's obvious he doesn't have the key. I like Beckett, although the guy is sarcasm incarnate. Put your ear to it. I'll shake it off and tell me what you think is inside Leopold's fortress society. It is well guarded. Well guarded meant all the guards needed lasers.

Eye surgery is still stealth, but that's okay, it just means I have to get through this place while crawling. I mean, I guess I could fight my way through, but these guys seem to have some pretty heavy weapons. This place honestly feels like an afterthought. it's just this hilarious combination of guards who can't see me murdering other guards. Laser cables that guards can pass through without taking damage. Computers that are parked directly in front of said tripwires and Skyrim Grunfeld npc only in the former enemy of him. I hope his fanaticism better serves the interests of I mean, at one point a guy actually sees me and I shoot him three times with a shotgun and no one else noticed, so I go down into these tunnels and find Ash, the idiot, at the club I helped.

I came out earlier at least I thought I helped him anyway, he's in a cage. It looks like they did a number on him, so I give him a packet of blood and take out the next guard room to find the key. The strange thing about this is the fact that I have no experience or anything, what a waste of energy, man. Oh well, we'll get to the master vampire hunter who has the ability to turn into water or something. I guess I can't complain. I'm here dodging bullets. keanu reeves so he goes down pretty easily with my shaking hand and then I get to his hostage the archaeologist I'm an archaeologist not a mythologist I'm an archaeologist an archaeologist archeology in addition to letting me know that he's the archaeologist he also lets me know that he doesn't believe in vampires and explains the image of ancient kings drinking blood with the prevalence of a more common disease at the time that caused iron deficiency.

He also tells me about an ancient king who was said to rule for 250 years around 1000 BC. C., approximately, which explains that it was probably the result of the monarch intentionally erasing the existence of his predecessors or his name being transmitted to his heirs. This king named Messerac was supposedly very powerful and earned the reputation of being a legendary vampire. Now all of this coming from the archaeologist's healthy dose of skepticism makes him believe that there is no way Mesarak's corpse is in the sarcophagus, but I promise you it's more likely to be full of gummy bears than vampires, but we says that he did not stumble upon the excavation site where the sarcophagus was found, but rather that the location of the site was mailed to him directly with no return address, most importantly, although the archaeologist tells us that a key to all the things to open the big shoe box and my boy. asks if the archaeologist has a copy, like if the guy just ran to Ace Hardware to grab a duplicate key along with some nails and a bucket of paint, why was I written to be so dense when he returns to the Lacroix tower?

A Sabbat attack. It's happened and the guys from Kroy's cleaned the floor with them, boss, boss, do you believe what happened the other night? I couldn't go to work at a counter, I bought a tamale from a street vendor and I had to sneak something terrible, how lucky. also because that food poisoning saved my life the prince sees this as an act of desperation and decides to send me to destroy his hotel branch here once and for all sounds like a pain in the ass but maybe I'll learn a little more about the sabbats point of view, so this place, remember the warrens, what the design philosophy was there: stuff a bunch of enemies in one place and have the player fight them.

It's the same here, except thankfully they're not those ankle biters from before. Now I imagine this would be very difficult, I mean, I tried to sneak around for a while and ended up with a bodyguard who finally noticed me, so I switched to fight mode. I started with haste 4 and thought yeah, this is pretty easy, then I remembered. I had 21 points to spend and decided to go for Celerity 5. You're going to love it, trust me, this is crazy dude, this is what John Wick sees. This is what it feels like to chew 5 pieces of gum. I'm running around this place asking.

All the vampires here do want to see me run towards that rock and then ask if they want to see me do it again. I don't know how to play this game normally anymore and you know something, this would be a challenge without solarity and it would still be a challenge if there was no way to get my blood supply back. I mean, yeah, sure I could have stocked up on blood bags and I did, but I didn't even have to shove them down my throat because there are these hostages. everywhere those whose eyes have been gouged out dot my path to the end.

It's hard to say if including them was the right decision, but I'm still going to use them, I mean, maybe if you're playing vegan. Vampire, this one is hard to handle or just one without haste or something anyway, at one point during my attack, the lady put the girl who has been living with me to sleep after I saved her life at the clinic in Santa Monica , when I came down, they just killed her. which bothers me because I was a crazy celebrity. I should have gotten there faster than a speeding bullet, so now I'm angry and making every vampire here pay for killing my scantily clad blood bag, including the strange vampire fish creature from before whose name I can't say with confidence before. to fight with him, although he gets very angry with me, which is a stark contrast to when I talked to him beforeof him basically calling me like 40 types of stupid people and telling me how strong my blood is. and if it weren't for that he would have been dead a long time ago, which is more interesting, although he tells me that the sarcophagus must be destroyed, which is not what I thought he would want as an agent of the Sabbat, I mean, so I heard that the Sabbat liked to eat other vampires to gain their power and this sarcophagus contains possibly the granddaddy of all vampires, so seeing that this guy wants him destroyed makes me wonder if we're the bad guys here to explain myself. that theory.

He's the leader of the quajin in Chinatown who goes to see this and then transforms into nines. Great, yeah, Lecroy is a good actor, he was the bad guy the whole time, blah blah blah, I don't know, it's hard to be disappointed, I mean The writers were putting up the idea that Lacroix was the bad guy in front of us all time, but I wanted it to be like I didn't know him, some kind of good force in disguise or something like someone who was misunderstood, you know what I mean? like the reason she would want to open the sarcophagus is to banish the evil within or something, but yeah, she tells me all about how Lacroix has betrayed his alliance that he lied to me about and how he keeps burning bridges to take power, including killing Grout. to frame nines, I mean hey, maybe I'm just lying, there may definitely still be room for a turn, the thing is, although I'm only now realizing that you can't really elect anarchists in the middle of the game, maybe at the end possibly. but I don't know what happens if I'm complete for the prince all the time, what does that affect?

Is it just this attitude or the rewards I receive? Are there actually different missions? I'm pretty sure there aren't any because I just went through the wiki to see if I missed any missions anyway, Lacroix does exactly what I thought he would do and tells me that the quaijin are manipulating me and as a show of good faith He tells me to go look for nines and offer him an alliance with the clique, you know this is going to go well, of course, when I talk to the nines in the park, someone sets fire to the forest, this wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't due to the fact that this is werewolf territory.

Come on kid, we have to get inside that building until the time comes, which means we can finally fight one and he won't take any damage, okay? So yeah, the werewolves are just the alpha males here, well I run away in slow motion into a building surrounding it. like five times before I find this room that has a switch that does something. This shit is so intense that I end up using my OS specs even though it doesn't actually do anything, the switch won't work until I flip a different switch outside, so I do that sprint.

I go back inside and flip the new switch that just opens this wall. Oh, okay, so I have to sit here and then I get brave and I find the werewolf who chases me here and gets stuck in the opening, so I close this thing on him. and he howls with the last howl of him. I didn't care about the sequence. I thought it was actually cool. I mean, it's been a while since I've felt scared for my life in this game. I'm glad I didn't have to run. I pull out that three and a half minute timer on speed five that would have been brutal, well, Jack arrives and takes me back to my initial apartment in Santa Monica before informing me that Lacroix has now set up a blood hunt for me, framing me for working with the quaijin and killing nines, I know I've been trying to predict this twist for a while, but if there isn't one that's okay too, I guess when I said before I was hoping for some kind of twist where Lacroix was actually the good guy that It doesn't mean you have to shoehorn it in, I mean, the important thing is that if you're going to have your plot have an obviously selfish antagonist, then you can make the player feel like the guy needs to go down through a nice betrayal.

It's also a reasonable driving route and the reveal of Lacroix suddenly and unapologetically stabbing the player in the back is a pretty good motivator for the player. My only complaint at this stage is that my character is pretty dumb and there's really no way around that barrier, even if I'm not trying to give Lacroix the benefit of the doubt, throughout the game my character is this stereotypical conduit of the protagonist naive that is used to explain the most obvious plot points more completely and that sucks because even if I say, yeah, the anarchist cabal for life, I still have to do everything Lacroix wants me to do, including meeting with the nines for this setup, the problem is that the game focuses on this single plot and makes any dialogue The player questions Lacroix or tells him that he is pretty useless in the grand scheme of things.

All that being said, there is one final choice that leads to five different endings to the game and I'll get to that in a moment. First I have to fight. my exit from santa monica which has me fighting vampires left and right, this actually becomes quite difficult even with haste 5 as other vampires are also using their powers which includes haste. I enjoyed it quite a bit, it's short but the opponents are tough and I like the challenge so when I finally get to my taxi I talk to the driver for once in the taxi as we travel down the road, he asks me where my loyalties lie and I get to choose one of the five endings in one.

From them I can tell you that I still believe Lacroix is ​​the best bet for the city in another I can tell you that the cabal is still the best bet but that Lacroix needs to die in the third I can side with the anarchists in the fourth I can side with queijin and in the Lastly, I can be a lone wolf who does not choose any side. I'm so curious about all of these endings that well, I think I'll cover them all as if this video isn't long enough, but to start, I'll go with what I really believe.

While I believe in what anarchists fight for, I don't agree with their methods many times, the recklessness they do ends up revealing more to the public than I think they should and even if they gained control of the city, they would still be. fighting hard to keep it constant seems like a never ending war the clique on the other end actually has some reasonable rules with their masquerade tenants the big problem is lacroix who is obviously very greedy and manipulative to such a high caliber that ultimately, His corruption serves him more than his relatives. I don't have a problem with quaijin, they seem very manipulative and holier than thou, but if they can stay secret I don't see any problem with their existence.

That being said, I certainly don't want to endorse them if I can help it and last but not least, the lone wolf route is tempting, but realistically I think vampires should stay together. Beckett can lend Wolf anything he wants because, well, he's one of them. The power of a werewolf is much greater than that of a vampire and them. being alone seems to be no problem, a vampire, on the other hand, I just don't see anyone who has had their hands in the political world as much as me, suddenly leaving without any problem, so for my first ending here I go. go to the Tramere primogen strauss and try to make a deal with him to overthrow lecroy, well strauss needs me to get the key to the quaijin so actually i don't know why, i guess just so the quaijin don't have it. but the problem is that if I die to Lacroix and his big sheriff charge, he'll just have the smart key, well my character doesn't question it, so I go to the temple and start kicking ass until the end.

There don't seem to be any vampires here, just a group of ninja samurai who said they knew how to shoot well anyway. I reached the depths of this temple and ended up in a puzzle area where I collected four jade. statues and put them on their corresponding pedestals now I haven't been conservative in any way with my ammo I've just been shooting every guy I see which is a gigantic mistake because absolutely nothing has prepared me for the ridiculous sponge of a boss that is the leader of the equation as she transforms into this giant hentai monster and it's a good moment of haste, the problem is that while I can avoid her ranged attacks by taunting her into a close range attack, I didn't realize that shooting its tentacles causes them to break.

I turned into a clone of her that can easily hit me with her long range punches while the other one does it at close range so I annoy him but the second time I have a lot better luck just running around her and shooting her in the back . The whole fight since I shot his tail, his tentacles don't break and he never gets a clone, but this takes a damn time. I had already run out of ammo in my spaz and was running out of my revolver, so use all the ammo in my revolver turn off my utica shotgun realize that its reloading animation takes 7 million years in haste switch to my rifle which only has so many shots to start turn off my flamethrower which consumes fuel in about 3 seconds switch I go to my og, use up the ammo and then switch to my Brock nine millimeter pistol to finish the job.

I'm really glad I was hoarding ammo with all my money in this game because for shits and giggles I decided to switch to my katana when it's down and it instantly flips over when I do that and rips me apart. I don't see any reasonable viability for melee builds in this game, honestly this boss, I mean Jesus isn't a great build, he doesn't do huge amounts of damage, but that doesn't matter when he has that much health, honestly it's too much . I don't think I'm lacking in gun combat ability at 8, but I might be if I didn't have haste as a Toryador vampire.

I don't know how this giant would have felt to me. I don't know, I honestly don't have enough knowledge about the other abilities in this game to make that assessment for sure, but I think this boss would have been much better off with even half his health either way I grabbed the key and headed back through. of the portal. This is one of the best decisions in the game as I instantly find myself back in the taxi along the highway. I don't have to go back. I have to go through anything else when I want to buy guns, it instantly puts me in conversation with the seller.

It is perfect. He literally does everything I wanted this game to do with other parts when I had to go back and forth between several. points to complete the missions, but it's okay, better late than never, when I get to Lacroix tower, I face the final piece of the boss's guardian, I don't know what happened, but Lacroix says I'm not supposed to let you go up under no circumstances. He says that he should walk you out of the building, so I'm afraid you'll have to go, I love you, hunk, so I take the elevator up and well, it sure doesn't teleport me to the top like it's always meant to.

I'm going to be stopped, yes, now I can eliminate this plague of normal, unarmored security guards who for some reason cause tons of damage with the knife, I don't know why, but either way, I slowly climb this tower before The prince sent a guard who he overpowered and basically put an explosive vest on, so basically the guy gave me free explosives. The thing is, I had no idea what I was doing with it, so the first time I put the explosives in the elevator I realized it was in the elevator. with me and then I jumped and died somehow the second time I went to the top, I killed all the guards, then I set the explosives and I thought: wait, this elevator goes up another floor?

Brilliant, so yeah, he was supposed to use the explosives to kill everyone. the guards at the top but I guess it doesn't matter much anyway because I ate one when I finally got to the top, the sheriff is waiting for me, he doesn't say anything, it's a shame though, he starts to sway. He looks at me with his destroyer sword and teleports behind me in slow motion, like always, it doesn't take much to take him down, but he turns into this big fat bed and takes me outside for the final battle. It is not difficult at all since it continues descending. around and I just unload on him at one point he tries to eat a guard but he's too slow and that's it, I finally get to the prince, I don't know what he's going to transform into, but here we go, I need the key, don't you understand?

That this city needs a leader? The quaijin will kill us all with the power inside that sarcophagus. I can protect this city. Give it to me. Well done, neonate. Your powers are considerable for someone so young. You will be a great help in the years to come wow okay I guess that's it so don't get me wrong I actually agree with the decision here the prince is not a fighter he is a manipulator the sheriff fights for him and deceives everyone and negotiates. everything else, brains and brawn, I really only have two problems with all this, on the one hand, the ending is very abrupt.

I guess I was hoping for one of those ending cutscenes where the graphics are much better than the rest of the game or maybe some kind of epilogue. As for what happened, the creditsappear and it just takes me back to the title screen. The second thing I disagree with is the difficulty of the queijin chief compared to the sheriff. I mean, I honestly thought they were going to slap me. by the sheriff after what I went through before this, but it was a lot easier, it seems strange if you ask me, especially since it was probably more important to get the key after securing the sarcophagus, when all is said and done, the sarcophagus is seal. away in a warehouse never to be touched again and the management of the clique changes to, hopefully, something better.

Well, I'm not going to bother playing every ending again because it's literally the same game mode. However, now I will show what happens using other images from YouTube. I said that a lot of the dialogue doesn't really matter when it comes to the game itself. You won't get a special mission if you tell Lacroix to leave at the beginning of the game, he simply overpowers your will and forces you to do his bidding. However, what they do affect your dialogue options are the endings you can choose from and apparently I was rude to Mingzhou at some point because there are only four endings I can choose from and if I had betrayed Strauss earlier in the game, I wouldn't I would have done it.

I've been able to do the ending that I did because I can't even reproduce the ending of the equation, let's start with that, so yeah, it's the same as before with the prince on his knees, except this time Mingzhou comes in behind you and belittles him. Before one of her guards cuts her head off, she basically calls you an idiot and tells you that there is no way she would ever allow an impure being like you to enter her precious ranks, so she tells you. He ties you to the sarcophagus and sends you to the bottom. of the ocean which is brutal, I actually like this ending just because it keeps Ming Zhao true to her character as a pompous and arrogant queijin who sees all other creatures of the night as dirty demons, although I have to say it almost feels So. it should have led to a boss fight where you fight her, I mean she doesn't overpower you or do anything to stop you from fighting back and you have to defeat her in the other ending so I don't know it just seems like a misstep.

There's only one more thing I really want to say about the queijin and it's not so much about them but their role among the knight version of the vampire, which I've been a part of throughout the entire game that the organization is hinted at. several times throughout the game as something mysterious, the vampires of the east, who function differently than the race of vampires I'm so familiar with, but the game never does a great job of explaining their role in how the vampires view them. others when I was First I was told that the cabal might have had an alliance with the quai jin.

My first thought was who cares because I had no context. The queijin did not attack me as soon as I saw them before confronting them directly. They did not mistreat me in any way. they were cocky but I had no reason to hate them and yet when it was later revealed that Lacroix had an alliance with them, a few select characters gasped and explained how horrible it is because of how long they have been at war with the koi . gin and again, this is just a small snippet of information that might be overlooked depending on who you talk to.

I really feel like his role should have been developed a little more in this game anyway, next we have the anarchists finishing this off. one has a bit of a preface that I can reproduce where it turns out that nines came out of the woods and actually killed the werewolf that attacked him, damn son, this guy is probably stronger than me after this, everything stays the same, even though I found him. a bit of fun conversation when I can tell him well, as long as mg zhao can't shapeshift into a tank I'm fine anyway, after getting up with Lacroix your character stabs him this time and then can choose yes or no.

To open the sarcophagus, if you do not choose to open it, you leave the key on the ground with Lacroix, who opens it. This scene is amazing now, my sacrifice, who are you? Yeah, I think I was kind of right about Jack messing with the sarcophagus earlier. Although it is not at all nefarious, apparently afterwards he is sitting in a lawn chair watching the fireworks with Messerac's corpse and the taxi driver next to him. If you choose to open it, you die. Although there isn't much effect afterwards, this is probably my favorite. The ending so far because it's very cathartic, even if you choose to get greedy, although I prefer the prince's maniacal laughter to your character's silly face silently walking away from c4.

The standalone ending is basically the same as the anarchists except after Lacroix blows himself up. your character walks nine to nine while congratulating you and you just turn your back on him, that's it, I mean, I guess it's okay, just uh, of course, if you open the sarcophagus, it's the exact same ending as the anarchists, Lacroix's ending, on the other hand, is definitely better. that the last one, basically, Lacroix completely lies and says oh yeah, it must have been the quaijin that prepared you to die. I mean realistically it could have been them but we all know it was Lacroix, he made you run out to grab the key and when you come back he names you his new right hand man then you both open the sarcophagus together and die although this It's nothing new, I like the implications of what could have happened if there really had been a prize in the sarcophagus after all.

The prince begins to monologue about the possibilities of who could be inside him and states that he will take the power within to become even more powerful than the cabal itself, proving that his loyalty is entirely to himself and nothing else. I like that he shows his true colors in this. ending and it's probably one of the best ones for knowing all these other endings involving this sarcophagus, although it's fun to think about the original ending I got where these guys carry this big coffin into a warehouse and it's just packed up. to the brim with explosives and nothing else of course there is a secret ending that only happened in the patch version plus cut content of the game that I didn't use it involves serun malkavian the crazy kinship variant that um well I can't lose I'll open the sarcophagus I will build an empire won't end here if you don't believe that that is the true ending of the game and that this is What Bloodlines 2 is going to continue from, then you don't really understand good storytelling, but yeah, it's worth mentioning that being a Malkavian gives you all kinds of different interactions and crazy dialogues throughout the adventure that alone give a lot of replayability to the game which is amazing vampire bloodlines of the masquerade is a gem among the gems yes, sometimes I got frustrated with it, no way way is perfect, I still wish there were several different missions that could only be unlocked by dedicating yourself to a particular faction from the beginning.

There are a lot of things at the beginning of the game that I really loved and that made me feel like a fish out of water, but right at the end of the mid-game things started to sour and it made me wish they had done less with the burrows and more with Chinatown, I wish the stealth system wasn't a broken bunch. I wish a little more thought had gone into some of the more enemy areas, but I still enjoyed a solid 24 hours with all the content I had and it was a lot more than I expected it could be for a game that's practically old enough like to boost the way you can build your character, the different feeling in each scenario, the people you meet and the humor that many of them bring. to the table, this game has so many things that I love that I'm going to keep with me in my heart and I mean, yeah, I'll probably get bloodlines because of this too, I just hope it can live up to it. standard set by its predecessor thanks for watching I didn't expect this video to take this long in any way Jesus dude anyway I want to thank gog again for the deal with this one and I encourage anyone who doesn't have the game and This video doesn't It has spoiled me.

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